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Labor’s Answer to A.I.? Give Us Our Time Back

A four-day, 32-hour workweek with full pay and benefits should be at the center of this offensive agenda. The demand for shorter work time shows how the gains from technology can flow...

Vishal Reddy

We Went on Rent Strike and Won

My fellow tenants and I were able to win rent relief and repairs in our building. Maybe you can, too.

Cynthia Barlow

Radical Consciousness, Colonial Tools: How the Left Addresses Harm and How It Can Do Better

Reclaiming Accountability from Cancel Culture: Skills for Addressing Harm in Community

Millie Boella

The World According to Gaza

Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrument of control and barbarism is...

Chris Hedges

Assemblies: A Path to Co-Governance and Democratic Renewal

A hybrid model of assemblies may be the key to bringing in vast numbers of people into the process of forging a new world and governing the one we have.

Ben Palmquist

A 10-Point Eco-Socialist Education Agenda

There's much more we can and should do. But this plan would get us moving in the right direction: expanding educational public goods that are democratic, ecological, and life-affirming.

TheLastFarm

No, Bringing Back the Draft Would Not Stop US Warmongering

Mandatory conscription makes war easier, not harder.

Ron Jacobs

Working People Are Leaving MAGA, but Where Will They Go?

Working class voters need a home, but the Democratic Party refuses to build them one.

Les Leopold

Why the War Meant to Save Israel May Destroy It

For decades, Western political discourse framed Israel as a democratic outpost surrounded by hostile forces. That narrative has steadily eroded. Increasingly, Israel is described—even by...

Ramzy Baroud

Israel Is Caught in a Permanent State of War

An interview with Israeli academic and activist Idan Landau, who says "as long as the US and Europe continue to insulate Israel from the moral consequences of its policies," things are...

C.J. Polychroniou

How to End the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East

If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III.

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sybil Fares

I'm No Longer Waiting for the Storm to Pass

This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain...

Bev Stohl

The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America's Cycle of Violence

Why did the United States help topple a democratic government in Iran some 70 years ago—and how did that decision create the conditions we’re seeing today?

Sarah Van Gelder

What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?

Rasmus Hästbacka of the syndicalist union SAC highlights leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.

Rasmus Hästbacka

The War on DEI and the Scourge of White Supremacist Politics

What is unfolding is an attempt to restore racial hierarchy as common sense, to turn historical amnesia into governing logic.

Henry A. Giroux

No, Iran Did Not Bomb Its Own School. Here Is What Actually Happened.

We've seen this pattern before.

Tim Hjersted

We Spend Almost a Trillion Yearly on War. That’s Insane.

Cut the military budget in half. Bloated war spending remains a sacred cow for far too many.

Eric Blanc

People Across Global South Condemn 'Imperialist' US-Israeli War on Iran

Global South unites against US-Israeli war on Iran, condemning imperialist aggression. Innocent lives lost, families displaced. When will the cycle of violence end? Join the fight for...

Brett Wilkins

As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More

“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other...

Norman Solomon

Going to War, Again, for Israel

Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military...

Chris Hedges

What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy

With democratic control over our productive capacities we can stop climate breakdown in short order. We can overcome the capitalist law of value, and organize production around social...

Jason Hickel

Honoring Michael Parenti, Who Kept the Torch of the US Left Lit and Sharply Afire

Parenti stands out as uniquely courageous and unapologetic in directly confronting capitalism, US imperialism, and the manifold corruptions and inequities of society’s powerful.

Christopher D. Cook

Between Social Unrest and Imperialist Military Attacks, Who Will Decide Iran’s Future?

An anti-imperialist stance today implies the unconditional defense of Iran against U.S. and Israeli aggression, while rejecting both a pro-imperialist transition imposed from above and...

Maryam Alaniz

Palestinian Director Abdallah Alkhatib Used His Acceptance Speech to Call the German Government a “Partner in Genocide.” He's Right.

Numerous filmmakers used the Berlinale platform in Germany to speak out against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. That only highlighted the cowardice of those who chose not to. Their excuses...

Nathaniel Flakin

Inside Zohran Mamdani's Police Reform Vision

What sets Mamdani apart from other progressive mayors who promised to be tough on police is a democratic socialist vision of a society that meets people’s needs.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival

One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.

Jason Hickel

Shopping Isn’t a Strategy. Here's How to Make Boycotts Effective.

With millions of Americans’ resistance still limited to consumer choices plus attending an occasional protest, we’re leaving a lot of potential people power on the table. If even a...

Eric Blanc

Class Struggle Built the Swedish Welfare State

Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.

Nick French

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

“No modern nation has ever equaled the crushing offensive power attained by the German war machine in 1939. No modern nation was broken and smashed as was Germany six years later.” - D...

Nicolas J.S. Davies

Wes Jackson: a Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming

Jackson was ahead of his time in seeing not only problems in agriculture but what he called the problem of agriculture, the millennia of soil erosion and soil degradation caused by...

Robert Jensen

A Grandmother's Legacy of Black Ecological Wisdom

Nikki Woods explores the deep ecological connections forged through surviving enslavement and its aftermath, as well as throughout African history.

Nikki Woods

Endless Growth Serves the Powerful, Not the Global Poor.

A common objection to calls for demand reduction and degrowth comes from defenders of the status quo:

Tim Hjersted

Why Degrowth Eco-Socialism?

The case for a better future

TheLastFarm

A Commoners' Manifesto: 24 Articles on How Commons Can Change the World

A commons world is decentralised, stable and unified, not statist, growth-obsessed and 'left’. I’d like to persuade the left away from statist ‘solutions’, and yes, to recruit the...

Dave Darby

The Epstein Class: They Are the Elites They Pretend to Hate

When given the opportunity to seek justice for countless women and children who were trafficked, abused, and exploited by the world’s wealthiest, most powerful people, the MAGA movement...

Sonali Kolhatkar

Four Lessons From the Fight Against Trump and ICE in Minneapolis

As the fight against the administration's anti-immigrant offensive continues, here are four lessons we can draw from the experience.

Sou Mi

Why Every City Needs a Public Bank

“We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank that puts our money to work for...

Ellen Brown

Renewables Can't Fix The Infinite Growth Problem. We Need a Bigger Focus on Reducing Demand.

Here's how to reduce electricity demand while improving quality of life.

TheLastFarm

Six Eco-Socialist Ideas Zohran Can Pursue Right Now

These policies are fully within the new mayor's power and would visibly improve daily life in New York without waiting on Albany.

TheLastFarm

Healing the Earth, One Community at a Time

Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land beneath their feet...

Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff

Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet

“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me...

Shane Burley

Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough

Justice will require a wave of impeachments, criminal charges, and restitution to the people of the Twin Cities.

Ben Burgis

Trump's Cruelty Is the Point: Making America Vicious and Unwelcoming Whether You Live Here or Not

In the first year of Trump’s second term as president, it’s become clear that, for those seeking, or even granted, asylum, the United States is no longer a safe place.

Rebecca Gordon

A Revolutionary Intercommunal Mutualist Critique of Colin Jenkin's Black Panther Party “Blueprint” Frame

An addendum to "An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should be Duplicated" by Colin Jenkins (2014), posted by Films For Action

United Panther Party – U.S.

Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Won’t Stop the Next Epstein. Here’s What Will.

We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.

Chanelle Gallant, Shannon Perez-Darby

The Patriarch in Winter: Grief, Complicity, and the Unraveling of Noam Chomsky's Final Years

In Pirates and Emperors, Noam Chomsky retells the story from St. Augustine’s City of God in which a pirate, captured by Alexander the Great, is asked how he dares to molest the sea. “How...

Jonathan de Noche

We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate – Here Are the First Three Steps

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratize our economy and a better world is within our grasp.

Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

A Glossary of American Myths

Myths are often treated as ahistorical, but here they are understood as alive and operating as memory systems that organize power in the present. This glossary names 100 and their...

Naya Diaz

“A Revolutionary Shift Is Underway”

It is time for each state to immediately review and suspend all ties with Israel. Their military, strategic, political, diplomatic, economic, relations – both imports and exports – and...

Francesca Albanese

Trump's ICE Goons Are Targeting Hard Workers, Our Friends, Neighbors, and Families—Not the 'Worst of the Worst'

Showing that only 14% of 400,000 people arrested by federal agents have violent criminal records, leaked figures from the Department of Homeland Security have not received the news...

Robert Reich

Trump and Vance Can’t Be 'Pro-Life' While Committing Violence Against Children

Children aren’t exempt from ICE’s violence. And for administration hardliners, that’s the point.

Jordan Liz

Notes to a Friend on “Performative Activism” and Cultivating Liberation Culture

The left has absorbed right-wing frameworks that undermine our efforts, often making our spaces inaccessible and unwelcoming to new people, writes Chris Crass. Liberation culture...

Chris Crass

Want to Stop ICE? Run for School Board. Run for County Supervisor. Run for State Rep.

These overlooked offices control the budgets, databases, and cooperation that make the terror possible—or impossible.

Kelly Dietrich

An Injury to Immigrant Workers Is an Injury to All Workers

The Trump administration claims that its assault on immigrants will protect American workers. But its masked, armed federal agents are creating hostile environments for all workers, not...

Sarah Lazare

Noam Chomsky's Wife Responds to Epstein Controversy

"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims," Valéria Chomsky writes.

Valéria Chomsky

When Racism Becomes Spectacle: Distraction in an Age of Climate Crisis

In the end, the question is not whether a single post is offensive—it is whether we allow cycles of warranted outrage to consume the very attention required for collective survival.

Peter Scaramuzzo

Gallego Says ‘Grind the Country to a Halt’ With National Strike If Trump Tries to Rig Midterms

“We need to make sure that we have an ultimate response to that which, I believe, has to be a true national strike,” he said.

Brad Reed

The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain't it.

Norman Solomon

Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?

History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.

Thom Hartmann

Does Nonviolence Really "Protect the State"?

Why the popular anarchist critique gets strategic resistance backwards—and what actually threatens power

Tim Hjersted

Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News

The internet has not democratized news in any meaningful way; instead, the media monopoly has simply migrated to digital spaces.

Caitlin Scialla

Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight

Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

Jackie Summers

Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster

Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.

Stockholm University Communications Office

Field Notes for Cracking an Empire

How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.

Jackie Summers

In Defence of a Basic Land Income

The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this...

Manuel Casal Lodeiro

How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE

Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

Eric Blanc

Putting a Stop To The Cowardly Democratic Party

With few exceptions, the Democratic Party apparatus is coasting, playing “it safe,” and expecting that the Trumpsters will deliver the Congress to it in November.

Ralph Nader

How Did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?

A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all

Eric Blanc

10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut

Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.

Rivera Sun

The Two Reflexes That Are Breaking the Left

Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.

Mehran Khalili

Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?

As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.

Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath

Will Democrats Ever Learn How to Beat Trump on the Immigration Issue?

Not only is the president's policy cruel and inhumane, it’s also not what the American people, including the white working-class, want.

Les Leopold

Majestic Scorn: a City Aflame Fights Fire and ICE

Despite the specious swapping out of fascist ICE leaders seeking to quell public fury, the gutted, steadfast denizens of Minneapolis continue to show up in frigid weather to demand "ICE...

Abby Zimet

Power Anywhere Where There’s People! (1969)

Power anywhere where there’s people. Power anywhere where there’s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation...

Fred Hampton

Our Greatest Opponent Isn't Evil — It's the Belief That Nothing Can Change

The first battle is the battle of the spirit.

Tim Hjersted

Debunking the Myth That We’re Not Ready for a National Shutdown

This call is very much in the history of how general strikes have emerged in this country since the mid 19th century.

Eugene Puryear

An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right

Dear American Citizens,

Grans-United

The Senate Must Not Fund ICE

The money fueling ICE’s abuses comes directly out of the pockets of working Americans who are already struggling.

Sonali Kolhatkar

House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too

“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.

Sharon Zhang

Fascism Will Be Stopped By Organized, Collective Refusal to Cooperate with Authoritarian Systems

Firearms may feel like instruments of resistance, but they do not create the collective capacity required to confront either state or corporate power. Organized labor—strikes, boycotts...

Rachel Hoopsick

Hitler Didn't Win Because Germans Chose Nonviolence—He Won Because They Chose Compliance

The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.

Tim Hjersted

After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope

Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

Sarah van Gelder

Lancet Study Warns Plastics Could Cost Humanity 83 Million Years of Healthy Life

A study published in the Lancet Planetary Health highlights how humanity's continued reliance on plastics—which are primarily derived from planet-heating fossil fuels—is expected to harm...

Jessica Corbett

1,000+ Organizations to Congress: ‘No Funds for ICE and Border Patrol’

"How many more people have to die, how many more lies have to be told, and how many more children must be used as bait and abducted?"

Jake Johnson

US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970

Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.

Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab

ICE Cannot Be Reformed—It Must Be Abolished

Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.

Qasim Rashid

Strike, Strike, Strike

The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down —...

Chris Hedges

The Last Election

The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is...

Chris Hedges

Imperial Boomerang

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or...

Chris Hedges

"This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" and Other Objections to Strategic Nonviolence

We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves...

Tim Hjersted

Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny

The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.

Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter

Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience

If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support...

Tim Hjersted

Another Murder in Minneapolis

Trump's domestic army continues its rampage. We must fight back.

Robert Reich

'Groundbreaking': Michigan Sues Big Oil 'Cartel' for Conspiracy to Block Renewable Energy

Michigan is taking on Big Oil in a groundbreaking lawsuit, accusing companies of operating as a "cartel" to impede the transition to clean power and transportation.

Jessica Corbett

Federal Agent Tells Maine ICE Observer She's Going in 'Nice Little Database' for 'Domestic Terrorists'

Federal agent in Maine labels legal observer a "domestic terrorist" for recording, sparking outrage.

Brad Reed

We Are All Minnesota

Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.

Mary Papenfuss

Every Nation in the World Should Reject Trump's Absurd and Dangerous 'Board of Peace'

Refusal to join will be an act of national self-respect. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded...

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Are We Killing Ourselves With Bad News?

My friends, stay informed. Stay engaged. Be aware. Don’t fall into apathy. But please, don’t let the bad news kill you. We need you here to help twist the plot.

John Pavlovitz

Masculine Strength Doesn't Need Redefining: It's True Purpose Was Always to Serve Life, Not Power

The conversation about masculinity has long been poisoned by those who mistake dominance for strength and conquest for achievement. This corruption is not new—it is the logic of tyrants...

Tim Hjersted

Dear Trump voters: A Quick Point of Clarification about the Left

Progressives vote for Democrats because they make better opponents, are less opposed to our goals, and do less harm than Republicans, but we also see that they are beholden to corporate...

Tim Hjersted

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